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November &
December
2019
The Appendix, newsletter of the Strauss Health Sciences Library is a CU Anschutz email list.
News from the University of Colorado Strauss Health
Sciences Library
November & December 2019
OER at Anschutz
OER stands for Open Educational Resources which are materials that aid in teaching (textbooks, lesson plans, slide decks, images, modules, activities, etc…) that are free (or very low cost) and allow users (both students and educators) to make changes without asking permission. Starting to search for OER can be a daunting task, particularly in the […]
Coming Soon: Updated Look for the Strauss Library’s Website
In an effort to continually improve the library’s website and the user experience, the library will launch an updated look on January 2, 2020. Our website’s new look is based off of user data, user feedback, and surveys the web development team has been gathering for the last 6 months. Some of the new changes […]
Search HSL becomes Library Search
The library’s discovery system and catalog has been redesigned and rebranded as Library
Search: https://library-cuanschutz.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ Changes to the system include: New branding and color scheme Strauss Library’s Twitter feed embedded on Library Search home page New links have been embedded in search results facets, (“Other Places to Search”) which can send the user’s search to […]
Just in Time for Fall Finals: Alliance of Therapy Dogs Returns to Strauss
Library!
Fall finals are coming—but so are the Alliance of Therapy Dog teams! Join us at the Strauss Health Sciences Library on December 4th from 11:30am – 1:30pm in the student lounge to PAWS and relax! This was a very popular activity at the library’s spring DeStress@Strauss event, so we’re bringing it back. In May, we […]
New Dissection Exhibit on the 2nd Floor
The use of human cadaveric dissection became a tool for teaching anatomy at the University of Montpellier in 1350, and became a fully sanctioned and regular part of anatomy education at the
University of Paris in 1407. The Strauss Library has a new exhibit on the 2nd Floor about the history of dissection. [...]
New Medicine Trade Cards Exhibit on the 2nd Floor
Before the Food and Drug Administration, which was created in 1906, was given the mandate to rigorously regulate drugs, and the wild claims of medicine makers, “patent," better described as proprietary, medicines could be found in every pharmacy and medicine show in the United States. [...]
Public Domain Day 2020
When discussing OER, we often devote a lot of time to Creative Commons licenses which are excellent tools for bestowing creative works with the 5R’s (Reuse, Remix, Revise, Retain, & Redistribute). However, in addition to Creative Commons, there is an even older designation that grants the privileges of the 5R’s with absolutely zero limits. It […]
New History of Infant Feeding Exhibit on the 2nd Floor
For most of history, there was no real alternative to breast feeding. The main reasons were the stigma of not breast feeding, and the lack of research on the subject. […]
Rare Book Profile: R.V. Pierce’s The People’s Common Sense Medical
Adviser in Plain English, or, Medicine Simplified.
R.V. Pierce’s The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser (Buffalo, N.Y.: World’s Dispensary-Printing Office and Bindery, 1875), is a household medicine and health guide, as well as an advertisement for its author and publisher’s products and services. First published in 1875, it remained in print through the 100th edition of 1935, sold millions of copies, and […]
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